Introduction

Although well-illustrated documents can’t make up for a lack of content, you can capture your audiences’ attention if your
documents are vibrant and visually interesting. Microsoft Office comes with a vast array of clip art, and there are endless
amounts available through other software packages or on the Web. When going online to look at clips, you can categorize them
so that it’s easier to find the best choice for your Office document. You can use the Microsoft Online Web site (Office.com)
to search for and download additional clip art.

You can easily enhance an Office document by adding a picture—one of your own or one of the hundreds that come with Microsoft
Office. If you need to modify your pictures, you can resize them, compress them for storage, change their brightness or contrast,
recolor them, or crop them.

WordArt is another feature that adds detail to your document. Available in other Office programs, WordArt can bring together
your documents—you can change its color, shape, shadow, or size. Because WordArt comes with so many style choices, time spent
customizing your documents is minimal.

In Office programs, you can insert SmartArt graphics to create diagrams that convey processes or relationships. Office provides
a wide-variety of built-in SmartArt graphic types from which to choose, including graphical lists, process, cycle, hierarchy,
relationship, matrix, and pyramid. Using built-in SmartArt graphics makes it easy to create and modify charts without having
to create them from scratch.

Instead of adding a table of dry numbers, insert a chart. Charts add visual interest and useful information represented by
lines, bars, pie slices, or other markers. Office uses Microsoft Excel to embed and display the information in a chart.